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Author : Frederick William Marsden Draper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Four Centuries of Merchant Taylors' School, 1561-1961 written by Frederick William Marsden Draper and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Davies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351543636
Total Pages : 659 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company written by Matthew Davies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the 'Great Twelve' livery companies of the City of London, the Merchant Taylors' Company has been in existence for some seven hundred years. This new history will chart the remarkable story of the Company and its members from its origins until the 1950s, encompassing the lives and achievements of men such as Sir Thomas White (founder of St John's College, Oxford) and the celebrated chronicler, John Stow, as well as the roles played by the Company in the City and beyond in different periods. As well as looking in detail at the internal life of the Company, the book will also focus on a number of important themes in the wider history of London. These include trade and industry, apprenticeship, the impact of religious change, the foundation of schools and other charities, and the government and politics of the City. In doing so, the book will contribute to an understanding of the aims and activities of the livery companies over the centuries, their ability to adapt to changing circumstances and their relevance in a modern world far removed from that in which they were first established. The History of the Merchant Taylors' Company will appeal to a wide range of people interested in the history of London. It is fully illustrated with more than seventy-five black and white and thirty colour illustrations.
Author : Richard L Demolen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004615202
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Richard Mulcaster (C. 1531-1611) and Educational Reform in the Renaissance written by Richard L Demolen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As headmaster of two of London's well-known grammar schools, Mulcaster earned a national reputation in education.
Author : John B. Gleason
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520337891
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book John Colet written by John B. Gleason and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : Mordechai Feingold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199206856
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book History of Universities written by Mordechai Feingold and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume XXI/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650218
Total Pages : 3216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Edmund Spenser written by Andrew Hadfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 3216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally flawed, self-interested sycophant; complicit in England's ruthless colonisation of Ireland; in Karl Marx's words, 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'-- a man on the make who aspired to be at court and who was prepared to exploit the Irish to get what he wanted. In his vibrant and vivid book, the first biography of the poet for 60 years, Andrew Hadfield finds a more complex and subtle Spenser. How did a man who seemed destined to become a priest or a don become embroiled in politics? If he was intent on social climbing, why was he so astonishingly rude to the good and the great - Lord Burghley, the earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Ralegh, Elizabeth I and James VI? Why was he more at home with 'the middling sort' -- writers, publishers and printers, bureaucrats, soldiers, academics, secretaries, and clergymen -- than with the mighty and the powerful? How did the appalling slaughter he witnessed in Ireland impact on his imaginative powers? How did his marriage and family life shape his work? Spenser's brilliant writing has always challenged our preconceptions. So too, Hadfield shows, does the contradictory relationship between his between life and his art.
Author : Simon Shaw-Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351550152
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Samuel Palmer Revisited written by Simon Shaw-Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varied and deliberately diverse, this group of essays provides a reassessment of the life and work of the popular nineteenth-century artist Samuel Palmer. While scholarly publications have been published recently which reassess Palmer's achievement, those works primarily consider the artist in isolation. This volume examines his work in relation to a wider art world and analyses areas of his life and output that have until now received little attention, reinstating the study of Palmer's work within broader debates about landscape and cultural history. In Samuel Palmer Revisited, the contributors provide a fresh perspective on Palmer's work, its context and its influence.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521554365
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes written by Quentin Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding new interpretation of Hobbes, one of the most difficult and challenging of political philosophers.
Author : Jean Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429647670
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Teachers in Early Modern English Drama written by Jean Lambert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century. This book examines these theatricalized portraits in terms of how they inflect aspects of humanist educational culture and analyzes those ideas and practices of humanist pedagogy that carry implications for the traditional foundations of authority. Teachers in Early Modern English Drama is a fascinating study through two centuries of teaching Shakespeare and his contemporaries and will be a valuable resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, writing, and culture.
Author : Paul Oppenheimer
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461661242
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Rubens: A Portrait written by Paul Oppenheimer and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular painter of his day, yet an artist whose reputation has fluctuated among art scholars and critics of the succeeding centuries, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is chiefly remembered today for his large canvases of sensual gardens, religious scenes, and voluptuous "Rubenesque" women. In Oppenheimer's account of his life, Rubens emerges not only as a talented painter but also as an intellectual with a unique conception of beauty that proved very influential and ahead of his time. Oppenheimer explores Rubens' ideas as he tells the story of his life, which included years as a diplomat, and illuminates his response to the humanism of the Renaissance in which he lived.
Author : Rory Loughnane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030008924
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England written by Rory Loughnane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the staging and performance of normality in early modern drama. Analysing conventions and rules, habitual practices, common things and objects, and mundane sights and experiences, this volume foregrounds a staged normality that has been heretofore unseen, ignored, or taken for granted. It draws together leading and emerging scholars of early modern theatre and culture to debate the meaning of normality in an early modern context and to discuss how it might transfer to the stage. In doing so, these original critical essays unsettle and challenge scholarly assumptions about how normality is represented in the performance space. The volume, which responds to studies of the everyday and the material turn in cultural history, as well as to broader philosophical engagements with the idea of normality and its opposites, brings to light the essential role that normality plays in the composition and performance of early modern drama. This book was preceded by a companion collection, Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England, published in 2013: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137349354
Author : Jeff Dolven
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226155374
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance written by Jeff Dolven and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take it for granted today that the study of poetry belongs in school—but in sixteenth-century England, making Ovid or Virgil into pillars of the curriculum was a revolution. Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance explores how poets reacted to the new authority of humanist pedagogy, and how they transformed a genre to express their most radical doubts. Jeff Dolven investigates what it meant for a book to teach as he traces the rivalry between poet and schoolmaster in the works of John Lyly, Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton. Drawing deeply on the era’s pedagogical literature, Dolven explores the links between humanist strategies of instruction and romance narrative, rethinking such concepts as experience, sententiousness, example, method, punishment, lessons, and endings. In scrutinizing this pivotal moment in the ancient, intimate contest between art and education, Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance offers a new view of one of the most unconsidered—yet fundamental—problems in literary criticism: poetry’s power to please and instruct.
Author : Ann Jennalie Cook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400853664
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Privileged Playgoers of Shakespeare's London, 1576-1642 written by Ann Jennalie Cook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides documenting the predominant presence of privileged patrons in the audience, the author discusses the shape of the privileged life, the place of the privileged in the social structure, the forces that drew so many of them to London, and the factors that made them such avid theatergoers. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jonathan Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131767538X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals) written by Jonathan Crewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism. Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under ‘suspicion’ as Crewe explores the elements of ‘criminality’ inherent in the powerful interests –personal, institutional, political and cultural – served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it. Revisionary readings of Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham and Shakespeare are linked by a continuing commentary on the history and theoretical claims of Renaissance criticism.
Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793111
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages written by Tanya Pollard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
Author : Quentin Falk
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526726254
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Mr Midshipman VC written by Quentin Falk and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the thirty-nine Gallipoli Victoria Crosses arguably none was more deserved than the medal earned by George Leslie Drewry.At just 20, he was the first officer of the Royal Naval Reserve to get the nations premier award for valour when part of the landing on V Beach at Cape Helles. In so doing he was badly wounded.Accident-prone, he survived falling into a bog as a child; he was knocked over by a car; as a novice merchantman he fell from the mast of his ship and on another occasion was shipwrecked after rounding Cape Horn and stranded on a deserted island.Tragically he died at Scapa Flow shortly before the end of The Great War, while in command of his first ship.Using contemporary sources, the author brings Drewrys life into sharp focus and describes the role of Snotty as midshipmen were then known. The result will appeal to addicts of real-life adventure and military historians
Author : David Turner (Journalist)
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189923
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Old Boys written by David Turner (Journalist) and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner's vibrant history of Great Britain's public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to the modern day, offers a fresh reappraisal of the controversial educational system. Turner argues that public schools are, in fact, good for the nation and are presently enjoying their true “Golden Age,” countering the long-held belief that these institutions achieved their greatest glory during Great Britain's Victorian Era. Turner's engrossing and enlightening work is rife with colorful stories of schoolboy revolts, eccentric heads, shocking corruption, and financial collapse. His thoughtful appreciation of these learning establishments follows the progression of public schools from their sometimes brutal and inglorious pasts through their present incarnations as vital contributors to the economic, scientific, and political future of the country.
